Incredible Newbie question station swap 3

[PBXJay]

Hi, I know in g3si all I had to do was x port a station and change port to swap phones for two offices....

How do I do the same in this switch?

Do I just change logical ID or do I just physicall swap the plugs on the boards?

I can't find my admin guide or link on avaya site atm.

Thanks, J

 

[Dexman]

Swapping stations on the Magix/Legend is done by physically switching cables near the telephone control unit.

If it ain't broke, I haven't fixed it yet.

 

[PBXJay]

Ugh.. that is what I was afraid of.. Physically going back on site. LOL.

The original Tip/Ring operator is not quite dead yet.

 

[PBXJay]

I was told by someone I would have to move the plug from phone A into an unused port first?
Then put phone B's plug into phone A's port,
then move Phone A plug from empty port to Phone B's port

Is this true? Seems foolish...

 

[kwing112000]

Yes that is kind of true. You can not have 2 ports with the same extension number so what i do is take one of them and renumber it to something like 71xx. Then take the second one and number it to 71xx and then go back to the first one and make it the new ext and then do the second. It will flip the extension numbers but all programing stays with the port. I find it easier to go and move the connections at the system side of it.

 

[PBXJay]

So it is easier to make a physical move of the connection than to do a software renumbering of extension is what you are basically stating, correct?

 

[dagwoodsystems]

You do not have to physically swap ports.

If you have two like ports (both are digital, hybrid or analog) that have working phones, you can swap them with a simple renumbering trick. Renumbering is not quite as quick or slick as X-hardware, but it's kinda the same.

I'd really need to spend a lot of time showing you how this works, but you can give it a try.

The dialplan on a virgin Magix (using set-up space) begins with 7100. The next physical extension (not adjunct) would therefore be 7101. Now let's say that somewhere along the line, 7100 was renumbered to 200 and 7101 was renumbered to 225. And now you are faced with swapping 200 and 225.

To do this, simply renumber 200 back to the default of 7100 (that frees up 200 as an available extension). Now renumber 255 to 200. Lastly, renumber 7100 to 225.

It's like this:

200 --> 7100
225 --> 200
7100 --> 225

Get it?


Just remember that all you are swapping is the extension number...not the programming. Button programming follows the logical ID, which means that you will have to go back to both extensions and reprogram them as they were.

Tim Alberstein

http://www.dagwoodsystems.com

 

[PBXJay]

Thanks Tim...

That is close enough to x-porting in Definity it is straight forward enough. Just have to assign first extension to unused number. Got it. Thanks,
J